Tag: Uddin Ifeanyi

CBN Governor, Olayemi Cardoso Despite Nigerians’ love of the story around our economy's exceptional status, orthodox economics has a term ...

...from the most perfunctory assessment of the state of the economy today, you could have your pick of why these ...

If Winston Churchill was right when he said that “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the ...

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) If we agree that transparency is increasingly of the essence, then the Central Bank must ...

Amongst other things, my experience of General Abacha’s regime is why I am not enamoured of China. Any person, thing, ...

Today, confronting evidence of the cackhandedness of our management of our foreign exchange resources until very recently, the question turns ...

This freedom to choose what to buy, produce, and sell is the market’s main link to the other freedoms, without ...

...the government vegged out. For a while, it seemed committed to matching the Buhari example over the time taken to ...

As governor, and later as kingmaker in Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s policies were more mercantile (for want of a ...

Why, given the immense problems that the country faces, and the urgency of finding solutions to them, is the national ...

If nothing else, the history of the Nigerian economy is spoiled with policy flip-flops: a whiff of root-and-branch reform initially ...

Illustration by Binay Sinha. Underwhelmed by the transition committee members’ insistence that the forthcoming federal cabinet comprise experts in the ...

Adire eleko In other words, without correcting the impediments to doing business in the country, a ban on imports might ...

Listen to official policy pronouncements over the years, and it is clear that the “poor and vulnerable” members of our ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. ...the part of the conversation over the pace and trajectory of the economy that matters more, ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In office, though, the picture that is emerging is more of a muddle. Mr Tinubu’s inaugural ...

Former President Muhammadu Buhari Concerned to repurpose the narrative, post-office, the Buhari administration’s Pollyannaish interpretations of its time in office ...

This unhappy state of the economy, according to the administration’s most recent attempts at making sense of the numbers, was ...

At the heart of these mutually reinforcing dilemmas...is a conceptual error. Ahead of her victory in 1979, Margaret Thatcher forced ...

...it is going to be difficult for the next federal government to dodge the bullet that is the budget for ...

President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Squaring this circle will impose costs across the economy. Someone will have to pay for it. ...

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Escheat arrangements set up the sovereign as natural heir in transactions between domestic entities that ...

...the holes that have to be plugged over the next one year are as much economic, as they are criminal. ...

Godwin Emefiele, governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Consensus is that the domestic markets are not broad and deep ...

This is the often unspoken argument for further domestic reforms. Changes to our rules will not of their own lead ...